Towel-holder



F. B. LADE VEZE.

TOWEL HOLDER.

APPLICATION men MAR. 1, 1920.

1,369,310. Patented Feb. 22, 1921.

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' whereby several towels may be held .upon

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANCIS B. LADIE VEZE, 0F PORTLAND, OREGON.

TOWEL-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 22, 1921.

'- Application filed March 1, 1920. Serial No. 362,333.

the bar in a manner that the withdrawal of one will not dislodge the others.

A further object is to provide a' meanswhereby a number of 'towels may be held upon a bar and a ainst accidental removal therefrom, and in t e event that other towels are laid upon the first mentioned towels the removal of an upper towel will not remove the lower ones accidentally.

A further object is to provide a means for holding towels of varying thickness upon a towel bar without strain.

A further object is to provide a means for holding towels that has no projecting sharp edges that might tend to mutilate the towels that may be made removable if desired, an that is chea to manufacture, eflicient in operation, an. ornamental in efiect.

With these and other objects in'view reference is now had to the accompanying drawings in which Fi re 1 is a front elevation of a towel bar s owing holders attached thereto;

Fig. 2 is an enlarged end elevation of a clamp;

Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the holder as 7 attached to this form of clamp;

. holders attached to the Fig. 4 is an enlarged end elevation of a modified form of clamp;

Fig. 5 is'a side elevation of the holder attached to this form of clamp;

Fig. 6' is an end elevation showing a jaw 'member attached to the bar without a the numeral 1 refers to a towel bar of the usual type and carrying a single holder 2 and a double holder 3 with a towel 4 in place under one of the yielding jaw members which constitutes a part of the holder.

The jaw member consists of a shank portion 5 and an upwardly curved end portion 6 which is curbed to conveniently receive the towel or other article'to be held. The shank portion is held positioned normally above the bar to provide a space therebetween which will conveniently receive the article without strain to the jaw member.

The jaw member may be attached to the bar in any convenient manner such as a clamp 7 consisting of a yoke to which the jaw member will be-ri 'dly'attached, and which will be clampe upon the bar by means of the bolt 8 as shown in Fig. 2. Figs. 4 and 5 show a slight modification of the clamp while Figs. 6 and 7 show the jaw member attached directly to the bar by means of the bolt 9.

In Fig. 8 a'slight Variation occurs; in this design there is a succession of jaw members attached to a cross bar 19 which in turn is suitably attached to the bar 1.

By shortening the jaw members so that only a small portion of the article is clamped it is obvious that many towels may be held upon the bar; and by the addition of more towels laid loosely upon those which are held by the clamps, the bar will hold a vast number of towels and the removal of the topmost towel will not disturb the others.

In use the device is conveniently attached to the bar byany desired means and the towel (or other article) is thrown over the bar and pressedto the left (or right as the case may be) assing under the aw member, the operation being continue until all the jaw members are full or until the reuired number of articles are placed upon t e bar.

It must be understood that slight modifi-' cations may be resorted to without departin from the spirit of the invention.

aving thus' described my invention, I claim- 1. Ina towel holder, in combination with a towel bar, a cross bar, a plurality of vertically operable yieldin jaw members, ri

idly attached to sai cross bar, 'flexib clamps rigidly attached to said crossbar to said cross bar, a flexible clamp rigidly for engagement with said towel bar and a attached to said cross bar forengagement means for attaching said clamp rigidly and with said towel bar, and a means for attach- 10 removably to said towel bar. ing said clamp rigidly andreniovably to 2. In a towel holder, in combination with said towel bar. V a towel bar, a cross 'bar, a vertically oper- In testimony whereof I affix my slgnature.

' able yielding jaw member, rigidly attached FRANCIS B. LADE VEZE. 

